unknought:

writing-prompt-s:

Your protagonist is petrified of the letter “L”, explain why without using “L”.

This is just to say

I have removed
the dozenth character
that was in
your orthography

and which
I imagine you intended to use
as the unique representation
of a certain phoneme

Forgive me
it was a voiced approximant
produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue
and so terrifying